13 Creative Uses For Garbage
Wow. After I found that bit on crocheting “plarn”, I found quite a few more really cool uses for plastic grocery and shopping bags. Imma try for 13 really cool and long term uses for them, instead of hokey reuse-once-and-they-end-up-in-the-land-fill-anyway type uses. Let’s see if I can make 13. I’ll cheat and start with a couple links for methods to create the craft material to create with.
1) Make plarn from plastic bags. Use the link on my last post or check out another way to do it here
2) Fuse your plastic bags to make a heavier “fabric” for other projects. And another comprehensive pictorial tutorial on fusing and sewing the plastic fabric.
Plarn projects:
3) Plarn rugs! I think these would be awesome in the kitchen! I’m on it! A round one:
4) This artist asks that we don’t repro her images without permission, and I don’t have time to write and ask, so please do go see her simply awesome plarn sea creatures!!
5) A Plarn Clothespin bag for all you freaks like me who actually like to hang your laundry out!
6) Plarn Gift Bag
Now we’ll do a few of the crafts made from fused plastic bags
7) How about a very chic necklace?
8) How about a serious tote bag?
9) Or a raincoat? (sorry; no instructions. Just fuse your bags and get a pattern!)
10) Here’s a great Rain Bucket Hat and Tote with instructions!
These next few aren’t fused nor plarn, but they are pretty cool ideas.
11) Funky Bangle Bracelets:
12) I like the idea of this lamp. It’s got me thinking of doing some hanging garden lanterns…
13) But really… my absolute favorite are these mandalas by Virginia Fleck that my darlin’ betmo sent me to see. (She’s right. These rock! This artist rocks and her statement about the work is … hehe… incredible.)
The artist says the following about her work:
“My wall-sized mandalas, created from sections of used plastic shopping bags, analyze the activity of consumerism as a spiritual encounter.� This visual experience of repetitive designs, indicative of meditative objects and advertising graphics, stimulates the viewer to yearn for more.� Participation in the activity of consumption offers affirmative feelings of redemption.� Consumerism is the global religion.� Salvation can only be obtained through active involvement in the pursuit of this article of faith. Our affluent lifestyle is displayed by the numerous bags with recognizable symbols that contain and brand our passions.� Abundance and fertility are manifested in the size and quantities of our possessions and attest to our belief in the American Dream. Our hunger is insatiable; our fervor can be witnessed.�Nirvana / paradise is easily obtained and owned.”
See more of Virginia’s work here at her site
That’s my TT! Thanks for visiting! Don’t forget to stop by The Eclectic Witch for 13 “Strange” Magickal Ingredients in my Cupboard!
I’m off to visit now!
Tags: crafts, creativity, fusing, green, plarn, plastic bags, upcycling
Birth: 9th June, 1891
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James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, Aug. 2, 1924 and died on Nov. 30, 1987. He offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Birth: 1895, exact date unknown.
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Virginia met her soon-to-be husband Leonard Woolf, … Unflatteringly, she had her next serious bout of mental illness immediately after he asked her to marry him. (Maybe he should have cut his losses then and walked away!) However, once recovered, she consented to marry him, making it quite clear that she was not in the slightest bit sexually attracted to him, or any man for that matter.
Bernstein, now a father, had one thing in his life left to achieve. The world had moved on since his early experiments with homosexuality and there were now men and women all over the world emerging from the closet to live an openly gay life. Bernstein longed to do the same. Like many married gay men, he loved his wife with a pure devotion but there were desires that she simply couldn’t meet. In 1971, on the verge of old age, he separated from his wife in order to live with his male lover, Tom Cochran. For a while, his change of life worked, but it was not to last. His wife became terminally ill. Unable to stand being apart in her final years, he returned to her less than a year after their separation.
Anthony did … have relationships with other women that were undeniably sexual. In 1868, she met Anna Dickenson, a fellow women’s suffrage campaigner. She instantly fell under her charm and the two often exchanged passionate letters, describing their desires for each other. As a much older woman, she met Emily Gross, whom she referred to in her letters as her ‘new lover’. Women comprised the whole of Anthony’s life. She worked with them, strove for their rights and passionately loved them.
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